Adrian Cole has fifty-six days to save the only thing his family has left — and no idea yet that the price of saving it will cost him something he hasn't even met. When his mother's bakery is seized over a loan she never understood, Adrian makes himself a promise: he will learn every rule of money there is, and he will never again watch someone he loves lose everything to a system built to be misunderstood. A chance encounter with reclusive billionaire Walton Kade gives him an impossible way in — if he can prove he's worth the old man's time. What Adrian doesn't know is that Kade hasn't taken on a protégé in eleven years, and the last one didn't walk away clean. As Adrian claws his way from delivery driver to rising force in high finance, he crosses paths with Marlowe Hart — sharp, guarded, and being quietly maneuvered by her own father into a marriage that has nothing to do with love and everything to do with a merger. Neither of them knows, that first meeting, who the other really is. By the time they find out, it may already be too late to walk away from each other. But wealth built fast makes enemies fast. Adrian's oldest friend turned rival will do anything to see him fall — and the fortune Adrian is building may cost him the one person who ever made him want to be more than rich.